Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756914AbXFOSZI (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:25:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752975AbXFOSY4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:24:56 -0400 Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com ([72.14.246.243]:3251 "EHLO ag-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752886AbXFOSYz (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:24:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=I67BFXCNjnMDcV0KNp2w8LxggZPAlF5Sj1S6bF4gH9UyzavqUaZH/+OcMnzm6r/V9ZXauMKyw+xrWaiLNKGPZF8c3477whosV3+NPt8FkkWjmCJonQMI6TBYGd605hGPyElIHDTHCj6KYp3Rix7EOm/0w4NufhU2+GK3QfxPX6A= Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:22:55 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: "Kok, Auke" Cc: Chris Friesen , LKML , Randy Dunlap , Jan Engelhardt , dave young , Willy Tarreau , apw@shadowen.org, jschopp@austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: coding style Message-ID: <20070615182255.GB8151@cvg> References: <20070614184836.GA6520@cvg> <20070615045111.GU943@1wt.eu> <46721F18.8090303@intel.com> <20070615173206.GA8151@cvg> <4672D246.2040306@nortel.com> <4672D4D3.60905@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4672D4D3.60905@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 37 [Kok, Auke - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:05:07AM -0700] | Chris Friesen wrote: | >Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as | >4 characters. If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9 | >characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who | >will see 5 characters of alignment). | > | >The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is: | > | >"use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment" | > | >If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it. | | it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between | indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major | confusion with patch submitters. | | I personally think that the sentence | | "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment" Absoulutely agreed with you! There sould be someting making strict rule over alignment (as it done for the tabs size). | | should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion. | | Auke | Cyrill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/